Ezra 6:19-22
English Standard Version
Passover Celebrated
19 (A)On the fourteenth day of the first month, the returned exiles kept the Passover. 20 (B)For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were clean. (C)So they slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the returned exiles, for their fellow priests, and for themselves. 21 It was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile, and (D)also by every one who had joined them and separated himself (E)from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to worship the Lord, the God of Israel. 22 And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread (F)seven days with joy, for the Lord had made them joyful (G)and had turned the heart of (H)the king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
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Ezra 6:19-22
Common English Bible
19 [a] On the fourteenth day of the first month,[b] the returned exiles celebrated the Passover. 20 All of the priests and the Levites had purified themselves; all of them were clean. They slaughtered the Passover animals for all the returned exiles, their fellow priests, and themselves. 21 The Israelites who had returned from exile, together with all those who had joined them by separating themselves from the pollutions of the nations of the land to worship the Lord, the God of Israel, ate the Passover meal.[c]
22 They also joyfully celebrated the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days, because the Lord had made them joyful by changing the attitude of the king of Assyria toward them so that he assisted them in the work on the house of God, the God of Israel.
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